Example sentences of "he [verb] on [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many direct employees of Scottish Enterprise are currently working on the defence industries initiative he announced on 14 October 1991 ; and if he will make a statement on the actions which have so far been taken . |
| 2 | Having returned to Oxford , he became on 21 April 1676 a privileged ( i.e. tradesman ) member of the university , championed by the mathematician John Wallis [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | He writes on 1 January 1745 : |
| 4 | He entered on 28 March 1826 , was made deacon in May 1838 and , much too young for priest 's orders , went in December 1839 to the English College , Rome , where he was ordained on 19 March 1842 . |
| 5 | He noted on 1 November that in the future the United States would have to walk a tightrope between the newly independent states and the old colonial powers . |
| 6 | He was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in 1791 , represented Scarborough ( 1796–1802 ) and Monmouth ( 1802–13 ) in the House of Commons , was made a privy councillor in 1797 and comptroller ( until 1804 ) of the household , then joint paymaster-general of the forces under the premiership of William Pitt and the third Duke of Portland in 1804–13 , before accepting the governorship of the Cape Colony , South Africa , where he arrived on 6 April 1814 . |
| 7 | In this he concentrates on two men guiding a crate on the end of a pulley . |
| 8 | The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 . |
| 9 | He matriculated on 3 April 1699 at Oxford where he studied at Balliol College as ‘ pauper puer ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The French domineering still at sea , ’ he recorded on 3 August 1690 , ‘ landed some souldiers at Tinmoth in Devon and burned some poore houses . ’ |
| 11 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 12 | He remained there until he died on 18 January 1923 , aged thirty . |
| 13 | He died on 3 September 1969 , after a heart attack . |
| 14 | He died on 20 April 1986 at the age of 82 . |
| 15 | By November 1308 he had apparently renounced the world and entered the Irish Dominican house at Trim , where he died on 21 October 1314 . |
| 16 | He resigned on 24 October 1386 with the rest . |
| 17 | Here Captain Darrell Locke describes what he did on 30 June 1989 . |
| 18 | This he did on 22 July 1212 . |
| 19 | Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’ |
| 20 | This is what he said on 8 May 1992 : |
| 21 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 22 | A typical letter was that which he wrote on 8 July 1940 : |
| 23 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 24 | Replying to my explanatory letter , he wrote on 15 September 1937 , with typical solicitude : |
| 25 | He married on 4 October 1917 Doris Mary , a comedy actress , daughter of George Stocker , gentleman . |
| 26 | While working as a commercial correspondent in Manchester , he married on 7 October 1907 Gladys , daughter of Thomas Perkins , postmaster , of Broughton , Salford . |
| 27 | He married on 26 October 1886 Venetia Margaret , daughter of the landscape painter , Alfred William Hunt [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | It was , he conceded on 6 August 1951 , " a life and death matter " for them . |
| 29 | Ainslie settled in Parliament Square in the midst of the Old Town of Edinburgh from where he published on 1 March 1778 a map of eastern Scotland from Moffat to Arbroath . |